Home Is Where I Am
April 2016
After 20 years, a man returns to his original home group and gets a big surprise
Just a Nice Lady Who Drank Too Much
September 2011
By:
Barbara C.
| Northport, Florida
That's what she thought of her drinking until she went to her first AA meeting
Earth To Stand On
September 2007
By:
Greg T.
| Oceanside, California
A surfer cuts through an undertow of anger
My Name Is Frank. . .
October 1975
By:
Frank B.
| Norwood, Massachusetts
And today I am an alcoholic
Three-way Marriage
February 1959
BEYOND WISHFUL THINKING
February 2008
By:
Mark Z.
| Hayward, California
A true partnership between AAs
What We Were Like
March 1994
By:
Anonymous
| Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis: the Nicollet Chapter
Nice Jewish Girls Don't Go to Prison
July 2002
By:
Sherri B.
| Houston, Texas
Unless they find out, as this woman did, that they are also alcoholics who've gotten into trouble
Pitcher’s Last Stand
September 2023
| Young & Sober
By:
John B.
| Holland, Michigan
A young beer drinker hits his last keg party and gets sober, thanks to the college newspaper
Late Bloomer
Web Exclusives
| Grapevine Online Exclusives
By:
Deb. E
| Iowa City, Iowa
Late to alcoholism, early to the sobriety.
Need a Meeting? Call Us!
December 2024
| Remote Communities and Sober Holidays
By:
George M.
| Durand, Illinois
A local accessibilities committee puts the word out to help homebound members and those in assisted living
Prickly Worker
December 2022
| Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By:
Anonymous
| Sacramento, Calif.
Over decades of sobriety, his work life became a great place to grow and apply the principles of the program
Once Over Lightly
April 1979
Going Down
June 2016
By:
Steve B.
| Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
He was escorted to the elevators the day he was fired. Then booze escorted him to AA
Change in Focus
October 2015
By:
Anonymous
Desperate to relate to her difficult mother, she let the Steps help her put the microscope away
Single Father
November 2003
By:
Miguel C.
| Portland, Oregon
Translated and reprinted from La Viña, September-October 2003
Mini-miracles
October 1975
By:
Anonymous
| Charlottesville, Virginia
Little miracles in life add up to the big miracle of AA
Your God Or Mine
September 1971
By:
R. B.
| Venice, California
Resentment ran riot when others differed with his concept of a Higher Power
Moments of Spiritual Awareness
June 1962
AA Has Never Lied To Me
May 2017
Night, after night, commitment after commitment, he found that giving the gift of service led him to a new life